BW’s Bethany Bogantz qualifies to DII Cross Country Regionals

By GARY HENERY

News Man­ag­ing Editor

Golden Eagle senior Bethany Bogantz has a date in Pick­er­ing­ton on Saturday.

Bogantz placed 15th with a time of 20 min­utes, 30 sec­onds at last Saturday’s Girls Divi­sion I Sec­tion 1 Dis­trict Cross Coun­try Meet at Watkins Memo­r­ial High School, earn­ing a trip to the Divi­sion I Regional Cham­pi­onships at Pick­er­ing­ton North High School. The top 20 indi­vid­u­als qual­i­fied to the Regionals.

The Golden Eagles, led by Bogantz’ per­for­mance, placed 11th out of 14 teams with 275 points. Team­mates plac­ing behind Bogantz were senior Stephanie Keller, 35th. in 21:31; sopho­more Makenna Hem­ming, 65th. in 22:55; sopho­more Han­nah Seabrook, 80th., in 23:32; and sopho­more Addi­son Shawver, 83rd. in 23:47.

The top five teams advanced to the Region­als, led by Hilliard David­son which won the Dis­trict title with 35 points. Also qual­i­fy­ing as teams were New Albany (84), West­er­ville North 98, Teays Val­ley (103) and Pick­er­ing­ton Cen­tral (135).

In the Boys Divi­sion I Sec­tion 2 Dis­trict Meet, Big Wal­nut fin­ished 10th out of 12 teams with 275 points. Senior AJ Bar­ber paced the Golden Eagles, plac­ing 36th. with a time of 18:03. Sopho­more Jonathan Kahrmann fol­lowed in 48th place. in 18:23 with junior Jacob Oppen­heimer, 59th. in 18:36; Bobby Bogantz,60th. in 18:37; and sopho­more Jared Boseker, 72nd. in 19:18; com­plet­ing the Big Wal­nut scoring.

Hilliard Davidson’s boys team joined the Wild­cat girls with a Dis­trict tro­phy, cap­tur­ing the Sec­tion 2 title with 34 points. Join­ing David­son with a ticket to the Region­als were fel­low Ohio Cap­i­tal Con­fer­ence mem­bers Lan­caster (59), Hilliard Bradley (99), Hilliard Darby (131) and Dublin Coff­man (141).

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